Janet Carsten - Selected Publications#

2021 Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense, co-edited with Hsiao-Chiao Chiu, Siobhan Magee, Eirini Papadaki and Koreen Reece, UCL Press (open access).

2019 Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang. Durham: Duke University Press. ('Highly commended', Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems, 2020)

2018 Reason and Passion: The Parallel Worlds of Ethnography and Biography, co-edited with S. Day and C. Stafford, special issue, Social Anthropology.

2013 Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows, edited special issue, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 19; separate book publication, Wiley.

2007 Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness, edited, Blackwell.

2004 After Kinship. In 'New Departures in Anthropology' series, Cambridge University Press.

2000 Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship, edited, Cambridge University Press.

1997 The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1995 About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond, co-edited with Stephen Hugh-Jones, Cambridge University Press.

1995 'The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi'. American Ethnologist 22 (2): 223-41. [Reprinted in Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader, eds Robert Parkin and Sharon Stone. Blackwell 2004].